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© Photo: Cristiano Gomes/NSC TVOne day after the first snow of the year, Santa Catarina recorded the lowest temperature of 2023 this Friday (21).
Exceptionally-rare April snow hit the highlands of Santa Catarina do Sul at Bom Jardim da Serra (3280 ft asl).According to meteorologists, "this is one of the earliest snowfalls ever recorded in Brazil".
Temperatures have also crashed, with daytime highs across the Brazilian highlands holding below 10C (50F) — record-breaking.
Reports are currently thin on the ground where this news is concerned — more to come, soon...
Historically Cold March For Guadeloupe
The Caribbean has been holding unusually frigid for the past six-or-so months.
Guadeloupe, an island group in the southern Caribbean Sea, just suffered its third coolest March of the past 70 years.While in nearby Martinique, located 150km to the south, March 2023 finished with an average temperature of 25.8C (78.4F), which is 0.2C below the baseline.
© Governo da Província de LuandaFloods in Luanda, Angola, April 2023.
Some of the worst damage occurred in Luanda Province, which includes the capital city of Luanda. Five people lost their lives after heavy rain and storms from 12 to 13 April. Two people were reported missing. More than 300 trees were downed around 1,200 homes flooded.
Heavy rain and storms struck again from 18 to 19 April. Around 1,700 homes were flooded or damaged by the rain in the municipalities of Viana, Belas and Cazenga. Five people died, including 2 people following the collapse of houses and three who were swept away by floods. All the victims were children.
© KOCO-TV via APA massive funnel-shaped storm cloud makes its way over a road, as seen from a car, in Cole, Okla., Wednesday night, April 19, 2023.
Authorities were still unsure of the full scale of injuries and destruction in Oklahoma, where storms flattened homes and turned over 18-wheelers. Employees of a pizza restaurant said they took shelter in the walk-in freezer, and when they emerged, portions of the roof and shattered windows littered the parking lot.
"There are definitely dozens of various injuries, from minor all the way up to fatalities," said Deputy Sheriff Scott Gibbons of McClain County, south of Oklahoma City.
© Heavenly Mountain FBHeavenly Resort on March 10, 2023.
The list is in ascending order based on total snowfall. All snow totals are from April 15, 2023, meaning they could still add to their already impressive records.
Snowfall Records
Eagle Point, UT - 367 inches
Cherry Peak, UT - 459 inches
China Peak, CA - 549 inches* (701 inches at summit)
Heavenly, CA - 566 inches
© Palisades TahoeThe 2016-2017 snowfall record was finally broken on April 18th, 2023, at Palisades Tahoe
With last night's snowfall of 10 inches, the previously held record of 707 inches of snowfall for the 2016-2017 season has been broken as Palisades Tahoe is now sitting at 710 inches of snow, which is 178% of its average season snowfall of 400 inches.
According to police sources, two members of the same family died and two others were injured when lightning struck their house in Nargasai area of Birmal Tehsil of Lower South Waziristan tribal district.
According to the police report, Noorshah Khan son of Asal Khan and her daughter Malala Bibi aged 09 years died due to lightning falling on a room of a house in Nargasai village.
The latest system created a wide range of snow totals with southeastern Wisconsin seeing 1 to 3 inches and between 5 and 19 inches in the far western and north-central parts of the state.
The Town of Northfield in Jackson County reported 22 inches of new snow. Black River Falls, slightly southeast of Northfield, reported 19.5 inches as of 8:48 a.m.
Authorities were forced to close 15 road sections as snow and snowstorms grab Kazakhstan.
Over 500 units of equipment continue plowing the roads.
As earlier reported, the 0-11 grades of all secondary schools, students of the colleges of Astana switched to online learning today due to heavy snowfall.
According to local media, the event occurred in the village of Loma Larga, in the Quilcace locality, while the community was gathered to participate in bingo and play a soccer game.
The injured individuals were attended to by the units of the Volunteer Fire Department of the municipality of El Tambo, who arrived at the site to handle the emergency and were then transferred to a medical center for further treatment.
At the same time, Fire Department units from the city of Popayan sent ambulances to transport the most seriously ill people to the capital of Cauca.
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Experienced storm chaser Reed Timmer provides a front row seat to the Cole tornado: